| French Postcards | |
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DVD cover for the film |
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| Directed by | Willard Huyck |
| Produced by | Gloria Katz |
| Written by | Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz |
| Starring | Miles Chapin Blanche Baker David Marshall Grant Valérie Quennessen Debra Winger Mandy Patinkin Marie-France Pisier Jean Rochefort |
| Music by | Lee Holdridge |
| Cinematography | Bruno Nuytten |
| Editing by | Carol Littleton |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 19 October 1979 |
| Running time | 95 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
French Postcards is a 1979 film starring Miles Chapin, Blanche Baker , David Marshall Grant, Valérie Quennessen, Debra Winger, Mandy Patinkin, Marie-France Pisier and Jean Rochefort about a group of American exchange students who spend a year studying in Paris. Madame Catherine Tessier (Marie-France Pisier), who with her husband, Monsieur Tessier (Jean Rochefort), directs and teaches at "The Institute", takes special interest in Alex (David Marshall Grant), whose real ambition is to experience Parisian life; Madame Tessier's interest extends beyond the classroom and into her bedroom. Debra Winger and Mandy Patinkin co-star in this comic coming-of-age tale co-written by American Graffiti scripters Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, who also directs.
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The story line primarily follows three American students as they feel their ways through a year of studies at The Institute in Paris: Laura (Blanche Baker), who ostensibly narrates the goings-on of the film with the postcards she sends to her boyfriend back home; Alex (David Marshall Grant), whose interests aren't so much in studying but with love and life in Paris; and Joel (Miles Chapin), who can't quite seem to live with the courage of his convictions. Alex becomes ensnared in a tryst with his instructor (and the Institute's co-director Madam Tessier (Marie-France Pisier), while Joel falls in love with a local bookstore employee, Toni (Valérie Quennessen).
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